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Architects: Timmins+Whyte Architects
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: James Hardie Australia, About Space, Adriatic stone, Colorbond, District, +6
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Professionals: Encore Projects, Profile Office Furniture, Emseem
10 Fold House / Timmins+Whyte Architects
Sculptform Design Studio / Woods Bagot
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Architects: Woods Bagot
- Area: 540 m²
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: Sculptform
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Professionals: Light Project, Rakumba
Chapel and Meditation Room / Studio Nicholas Burns
Music Market Cultural Center / Sibling Architecture
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Architects: Sibling Architecture
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: Dulux
UTS Thomas Street Building / Durbach Block Jaggers
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Architects: Durbach Block Jaggers
- Area: 14960 m²
- Year: 2014
How Is the Isoptic Calculated?
When designing an architectural space, it's necessary to think about how to satisfy the needs of each user, looking to achieve an adequate level of comfort and a pleasant experience. Auditoriums, cinemas, and theatres are spaces that involve large masses of people, so special attention must be paid to factors like isoptics, acoustics or accessibility so that when witnessing an event, everyone is able to receive the same information.
RaeRae House / Austin Maynard Architects
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Architects: Austin Maynard Architects
- Area: 371 m²
- Year: 2020
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Professionals: Group II Building Surveyors, Co-Struct, Overend Constructions, Augie Interiors, Efficient Energy Choices, +1
Levo’s House / Clinton Murray Architects
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Architects: Clinton Murray Architects
- Area: 300 m²
- Year: 2020
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Professionals: Jorant Pty Limited, Kihara Landscapes
Deakin Law School Building / Woods Bagot
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Architects: Woods Bagot
- Area: 18350 m²
- Year: 2020
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Professionals: Aspect Studios
City Beach Residential College / iredale pedersen hook architects
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Architects: iredale pedersen hook architects
- Area: 1421 m²
- Year: 2019
JARtB House / Kavellaris Urban Design
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Architects: Kavellaris Urban Design
- Area: 525 m²
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: Connected Living, Digiglass, Lights & tracks, Modcons, Parthenon Marble
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Professionals: The Goodmen Building Surveyors, Enrate, BPD, O'Neil Group
Concave and Convex: Designing with Curved Wood
Curved shapes have always sparked architects' fascination for evoking nature's beauty, fluidity, dynamism, and complexity. To replicate these shapes, however, is no easy task. From their two- or three-dimensional representation to their execution in their final materials, this represents an enormous difficulty, which requires technical expertise and a great amount of knowledge to achieve strong results. Thinking of new ways to produce organic shapes from natural materials is even more complicated.
In addition to this, working with a natural material such as wood carries its own set of peculiarities. Factors such as the species of wood, where the tree grew, what climate it faced, when it was cut, how it was sliced or dried, among many other variables, largely influence the final result. But it's hard for other materials to compare to the beauty and warmth that wooden surfaces bring to the built environment. If the appropriate processes are used, wood can be curved and remain in the desired shape - and for this, there is a number of known techniques which Australian company, Sculptform, has perfected.
A Guide to Off-Grid Architectures
Anyone who lives in a big city may have dreamed of moving elsewhere and living isolated, in a house among the trees or on a deserted beach. During the pandemic and the endless months of quarantine, many more may have had this same idea. As romantic and seductive as this may seem, however, living deep in nature comes with some important practical challenges. Rarely would anyone give up the little comforts they are used to, like turning on a faucet or charging their cell phone. If the location is, in fact, remote, it may not have electricity, drinking water, gas, sewage, or solid waste collection. But there remain several possibilities for a life with comfort and without neighbors. What are the main solutions to enable this and how can an architectural project provide an off-the-grid life?
Australia 108 / Fender Katsalidis Architects
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Architects: Fender Katsalidis Architects
- Area: 138295 m²
- Year: 2021
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Manufacturers: Christopher Boots, Kone, WÖHR
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Professionals: Carr, Urbis, Brookfield Multiplex Australasia, WT Partnerships, Robert Bird Group, +2
Ripple House / FMD Architects
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Architects: FMD Architects
- Area: 160 m²
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: Dulux, Lysaught, MAXI Plywood, Radial Timbers
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Professionals: B.F.C. Built, Marcon Tedesco O'Neill Consulting Engineers
Earl Street House / Bloxas
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Architects: Bloxas
- Year: 2020
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Professionals: Cale Peters Constructions
Bustle House / FMD Architects
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Architects: FMD Architects
- Area: 193 m²
- Year: 2017